Scale.



J. L. PIPE,

SCALE. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 29, 190B.

Patented New. Q 19%.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

2x95 Masses J. L PIPE.

SCALE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 29, 1908.

Patented N019. 1909.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

accordance with the particular column of .ronn L. PIPE, or anincmnninots.

SCALE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1909.

Application filed September 29, 1908. Semal No. 455,322.

The invention relates to an improvement in scales, and is more particularly directed to' an attachment designed for connection with the usual scale beam and adapted in use to automatically compute the price of a given commodity in accordance with the weight of such commodity on the scale platform. t

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a scale attachment inl eluding a manually operable chart carrying a series of computations, in which the different weights of commodities at varyingl prices are figured out, the chart being arranged "for such movement asto cause any t particular line of computations to be eX-t posed to view, the attachment being arranged with direct relation to the pound indicating marks on the scale beam and the l poise on such beam being provided with a 1 pointer designed to indicate the particular price on the exposed portion of the chart-t in accordance with the number of pounds l indicated on the scale beam. 7 1

[another object of the invention is the prot vision of an indicating plate forming part! of the attachment and divided to indicate a l specific measure of the different commodii ties, as a bushel in particular accordance. with the weight of that measure in pounds, so that the operator may from-the indicating plate determii [the number ,of bushels of material on the scale in accordance with the know number of pounds per bushel of such material and thendeterinine the price of the amount of material on the scale in l l l l the chart bearing the specific price per bushel.

The invention will be described in the following specification, reference being .iad particularly to the accompanying drawings. in which Figure l is a view in elevation of 1..y imroved attachment,-showing the same ap-l plied to a scale beam. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, detached from the beam with the cover plate and indicating plate rel moved. Fig. 3 is a broken. section, partly in t elevation of one of the chart rollers. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the attachment as a-pplicdto the ordinary scale beam. Fig. 5 is a vertical section through the attachment. Fig. 6 is a diagrammatic View illustrating a portion of the chart. Fig. 7 illustrates an elevation showing a slightly different form of standard. Fig. 8 is a similar View showing another form of standard.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, wherein is illustrated the preferred form of the present invention, the improved attachment comprises uprights or standards 1 and 2 of duplicate form and designed to be secured at opposing ends of a scale beam 3. In the application of the attachment as a part of a scale during the manufacture of the latter the forward edges of the standards are recessed, as at 4, to snugly receive the scale beam, bolts 5, or other securing means connecting the parts. In the application of the attachment to scales already in use and under conditions in whichthe want of room above the upper beam necessitates the use of the lower or tare beam the standards are provided at their upper rear portions with extensions 6 designed to contact and be connected with the lower beam as in Fig: 7. In applying the uprights to the upper beam the standards are provided with projections 7 recessed on their iorward edges as in the preferred form. the form of sitandard for this use being illustrated in ig. 8. 1 Arranged in vertical spaced relation between the standards 1 and 2 are rollers 8 and 9 hereinafter designated as upper and lower chart rollers. Secured on eachend of the respective rollers is a gear wheel 10 having a stub shaft projection 11 designed to seat in a suitably formed bearing in the respective standards, one of the stub shafts of the upper roller being preferably elongated to extend beyond the outer surface of theadjacent upright, as at 12, and is terminally provided with a roughened roller 13,

whereby manual operation ofthe chart. as

hereinafter described, is provided for., The vert'i ally alined gears 10 of the respective rollers are in mesh with an intermediate pinion 10 mounted in the upright between the rollers, the-intermeshing of the gears described insuring an even and uniform movement of both rollers in the operation of the hand roller'l3.

Secured upon the rollers 8 and 9 is the line in accordance With the price per. bushel .parts.

chart comprising a strip of substantial lexible material 1%, the ends of which are removably secured to the respective rollers preferably by seating such ends in longitudinally arranged grooves 15 in the surface of the rollers and fixing the strips by filling blocks 16 secured Within the grooves, as clearly shown in Fig. The chart is di vided into a series of horizontally arranged columns 17, at each end of which there are arranged two vertical columns 18 and 19. The chart in the particular instance illustrated is computed on the basis of a bushel as the primary measure, and the extreme outer vertical column indicates the number of pounds in a bushel of a particular commodity, While the relatively inner vertical column indicates the price per bushel of such commodity. Each horizontal column is divided by a series of indicating lines to indicate bushels, quarter bushels, and half bush els, and at the upper end of each indicating line there are arranged one or more figures indicating the price for the particular quantity of material noted by such indicating noted in the innermost vertical column alined -With the particular horizontal column.

The chart is graduated in the horizontal column with. particular arrangement to the pound marks on the scale beam 3, that is to say that in a. horizontal column based upon eighty pounds to the bushel the first indicatinp; mar T, which denotes one quarter of a bushel, will, as later described register for reading; purposes with the twenty pound mark on the scale beam,v While in a horizontal column divided on the basis of sixty pounds to the bushel the first indicating mark will register with the fifteen pound mark on the scalebeam, and so on throughout the series ofrcolumns on the chart.

In connection with the parts described l use a cover plate made up of two right angled sections 20 and 21, the former signed to embrace the upper and forward edges of the upri ts and the latter the rear and lower edges cot, said course, attending through ut i the attaclunent between to concealing and protecting H The vertical portion at the section 20 of the cover formed with a horizontally arranged sigl'it opening 22 ot such length and height as-to permit thev exposure therethrough of any particular horizontal col umn of the chart in accordance With the operation of the rollifs. By this means the operator knowing the Weight and price of the commodity can arrange the particular chart column in the plane oi. the opening 22 and thereby dispose theparts for the automatic pricing in acco1'dai1ce i-vitl1 the invention.

Secured to the uprights and overlying the vertical portion of the section 20 ot the cover plate is what I term an indicatii j plate 28 on which is arranged a series oi horizontal columns, 24 graduated in quarter bushels of various commodities, each horizontal column having at one end thereof two vertical divisions :25 and 2G, in the first of which there is indicated the particular commodity and in the second of'which there is indicated the number of pounds oi such/ commodity to the bushel. The indicating lines in the horizontal columns 2% are, of course, spaced with particular regard to the pound marks on the scale, as previously described in connection with the chart, so. that any pa 'ticular indicating mark in one of the horizontal columns 24L will register through. a pointer, to be described, With the' pound mark on the scale beam in accordare": with the number of pounds of the particular commodity indicated by the mark in the column 24:-

Secured to the poise 27 operative on the beam 23 is a pointer 28, preferably a strip rising from and secured to the poise and formed With an elongated opening 29, the rear vertical Wall of which has a series of projecting points 30. The points are so an ranged as to register respectively with the columns 24: on the indicating plate and the exposed column on the chart, it being understood thatthe pointer is so arranged With relation to the poise that the particular points i"'" will "egister with the proper indicating inarlts in the respective columns of the chart and plate in strict accordance with the number of pounds indicated by pcise on the scale beam. In other Words if tl c exposed column of the chart is that indiflilllg eighty pounds to the bushel andthe poise indicates five hundred and twenty pounds, as shown, the point 30 cooperating with the exposed chart. column will register with the six and one-halt bushel marl: on such column, the ren'iaininp; pointers on. the plate denoting the proper indicating marks in strict :uzcordance with the number of pounds indicated by r From tl aborve :en in connection Willi the all! be nnderstood that the price 0. rticn ar seventy-eight cents. By the use of the indicating plate the necessity of having more than one chart of prices and bushels is avoided, as With the plate the operator in weighing the commodity could readily discover the number of bushels and parts oi bushels in the quantity of commodity being weighed in accordance with that particular column 2% indicating the known number of pounds per bushel of the commodity. Having thus determined the quantity and setting the chart to expose that column indicating the particular price per bushel, he eanfby consulting lllQ=-li1CllCtlllTl mark on the exposed chart column corresponding to the bushel mark noted on the particular plate column; learn the exact price of the quantity of the commodity being weighed. That-column 24 on the plate noted at fifty pounds per bushel is advantageous incomputing the weight of a commodity by the hundred weight or ten, for example suppose the operator desires to compute a load'of hay at sixty-five cents per hundred Weight. The chart column indicating thirty-two and one-half cents per bushel, which on the basis of sixty-five cents per hundred Weight is the price of a bushel Weighing fifty pounds, and then take the reading on the particular plate column indicated by the weight of the Such Weight commodity on the scales. would be indicated in the, plate column as so many bushels, and. by then, referring to the corresponding number of bushels on the exposed chart column would find indicated the price at thirty-two and one-half cents per bushel of fifty pounds or sixty-five cents per hundred Weight.

It is to be understood, of course, that for convenience a few only of the various Weights per bushel and prices per bushel are indicated, and that the invention contemplates the use of any number of columns any Weight or price per bushel or of columns indicating Weights and prices of other measures.

The attachment is readily applied as an entirety to any platform or otherscales, the sole requirement. being that With thepoise indicating a certain number of pounds the points should register with the correspond ing indicating marks on the various columns. As the chart and indicating plate have at all times a fixed relation so an: as the indicating marks are concerned, the ad= justment of the attachment on a scale beam to-cause a proper registry of any particular; mark on any of the columns will set the attachment for all.

Having thus described the inventi islcla'irnedas new, is: v I V The combination With'a scale beam, of an attachment therefor: comprising standards adapted to be removably secured to the beam, rollers mounted for simultaneous movement in the standards, indicating; chart arranged on the; rollers, acover inclosingthe rollers and chartand -:tbrmed with an opening through which a desired portion What of the chart may be exposed, a poise for the beam, a pointer carried by the poise and registering with the exposed portion-of the chart, and a fixed scale plate secured on the cover and arranged above the sight opening therein, crate With the indicating marks on the scale plate.

lln testimony whereof I a'iiirr niy'signature in presence of two Witnesses.

Jenn ii. men.

Witnesses:

Geo. H. Unnnannmu,

C. firs.

i Amrann said pointer being adapted to eoop- 

